Meme: about presents

[pensnest]

brandywine asked what is the best Christmas gift I've ever given and/or received.


The trouble is, I can't remember! I mean, I'd like to think I have on occasion managed to produce a spectacularly good gift for someone, but I don't know who and I don't remember when. If I were organised like my Dad, I'd have kept a Christmas Book with details of all presents received and sent, going back forever. But I ain't. I have done knitted stuff—I think the sweaters for my father in law, brother in law, husband and son (in a variety of years) went over well...

As for gifts received, I do remember a squeak of joy when I opened the present from Bun a year or two ago, for it was a set of Knitpicks circular needles, with interchangeable cables. I was slightly disappointed that they weren't the pretty decorative wooden ones, but I have since found that I really love the metal needles, and rarely use anything else now.

I'm sure there must have been other spectacularly well-chosen gifts, but I don't remember... argh!